Word: japanism
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...quite. It turned out that Great Powers have wildly diverging interests. They may oppose war in the abstract, but they have other priorities too. Italy coveted Abyssinia. Germany wanted to rearm and reconquer. Japan sought control of Asia...
Perpetuity lasted about a day. As soon as Germany and Japan were dispatched, the U.S. and the Soviet Union with their vastly different interests fell into a half-century of cold war during which the U.N. was paralyzed. But even that reality could not kill the dream. It had its third life when the Soviet Union collapsed. That time, the Great Powers, no longer divided by existential ideological conflict, would finally act together to safeguard peace. It all seemed confirmed by the relative unanimity of the Gulf War when, for a fleeting moment, a dying Soviet Union and a rising...
With this year marking the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Basic Treaty of Friendship and Co-operation between Australia and Japan, the just-completed Sydney Symphony concert tour perhaps best exemplifies the new-found harmony between these two once warring nations. Invited by Asia Orchestra Week as "a glory of the Southern Hemisphere," the Australian orchestra's bass-heavy Sydney sound was let loose in the more rarefied acoustics of halls in Tokyo and Osaka. "The technique in Japan is really polished, highly trained, actually perfect?no mistakes," says Tokyo-raised, Sydney-based contrabassoonist Noriko Shimada. "I like...
...spanish mission-style mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Japan's consul-general is showing off his art collection. With glass of red wine in hand, Tsukasa Kawada points out a triptych of sketches depicting traditional Japanese musicians: Two are by celebrated Australian artist Ken Done, but the third and most colorful is his own work. "I bought this frame and there were three spaces, so I put my own drawing in," the genial Kawada explains. It's a thumb-sized symbol of cultural exchange, and one that is amplified when five Sydney Symphony musicians proceed to perform a sprightly...
...expected China and the Soviet Union would be ascendant, that allies like Japan and South Korea would doubt our resolve and reposition themselves, and that North Vietnam would claim the rest of Indochina. Almost none of that happened...